SEED-TIME AND HARVEST. 
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For second best list we will award, Popular Prose 
Readings. 
Lists will close on Oct. 13. 
Answers to July Garnerings were received from 
Lackawanna Lad, Anna Condor, Dan Shannon, O. 
Mission, Maude, Flossie Floss. George Hermon, Way- 
land, the Wanderer, Katie Burroughs, Sally, Con 
Cregan, Samuel Bicknell, Ajax, Undine, Slippery 
Elm. Timon of Athens, J. F. M. 
Our Cozy Corner. 
Maude: Those “Reversions” are excellent, and we 
are much pleased at the form in which they are 
presented for solution. You seem to revel in rhymes. 
—Lackawanna Lad: You need not take the trouble 
to send answers to your own puzzles, as such are 
never counted: it would be very unfair to do so.— 
Sally: The Diamond in this number is the last puzzle 
of yours we have on hand up to the time of sending 
this to press, Aug. 14. More would be welcome. We 
should like some Octagons.—A. L : We are looking 
for some, more of your fine Charades, and hope, 
soon, to receive them. Did Maude's compliments so 
entirely over-power you that you have not recovered 
from their effects?— T. N. A.: When the puzzling 
fever overtakes you again, sit down and compose 
just as many puzzles as you can, for we will insure 
a hearty welcome for all you may favor us with.— 
Adelaide: In your next package, please to include 
some Diamond Crosses, as they will prove quite a 
novelty in this department .—Anna Condor: All 
seasons have their pleasures and contain something 
to gratify each ones taste. One may like what 
another dislikes; and that which displeases one may 
give pleasures to another. We do not know the 
author of the lines submitted; do not think they 
have been culled from any poem, but are complete 
in themselves. As some of our readers may be 
more familiar with the subject, than we are. and 
may be able to give you the desired information, we 
reproduce the lines here: 
“And though heavy the cross the Master sends, 
He has promised a glorious morn, 
When we see, not as now, but ‘face to face,’ 
And know as we are known;’ 
When the shadows are lifted, the mists have clear¬ 
ed, 
And we walk no more alone; 
In that beautiful land, sometime, somewhere, 
He will giye us back our own.” 
A beautiful sentiment wedded to beautiful lines. 
F. S. F. 
Gathering Peas for Seed. 
The pea is one of the few vegetables in 
which the varieties rarely mix when grown 
near each other. The gardener may save 
his own seed with a reasonable certainty 
that it will produce plants true to name. 
It is not wise, however, to gather for seed a 
few pods that happen to ripen on vines 
grown for table use. By so doing, the 
chances are that we are gathering the 
poorest and latest pods. 
It appears from experiments in the Station 
garden, that much may be gained by a 
careful selection of pods. As an example, 
in the season of 1882 we found on a row of 
Laxton‘s Marvel pea. 85 feet long, two pods 
containing' 11 seeds each. These 22 seeds 
were kept separate, and planted the next 
spring with those from several other pods 
which contained nine or ten seeds each. 
We were interested to notice that the peas 
from the 11-seeded pods produced again two 
pods containing 11 seeds each, while none 
of the plants from the nine and ten-seeded 
pods gave more than ten sec ds. The next 
spring (1884) we again planted the peas 
from the two 11-seeded pods. This time 
the crop gave three 11-seeded pods. We 
have searched in vain among many plant¬ 
ings of the Laxton Marvel pea from ordi¬ 
nary seed for a pod containing 11 seeds. 
This clearly indicates that extra fine pods 
tend to reproduce themselves. But this is 
not all. The plants from this carefully 
selected seed were more productive than 
those from ordinarv seed: the difference 
being so considerable that it can hardly be 
attributed to chance. 
Peas grown in New England or the Mid¬ 
dle States are, if planted in spring, sure to be 
infested with the pea Aveevil. At the time 
the peas are harvested for seed, many of 
them, sometimes almost all, contain small 
maggots that, if undisturbed, will emerge 
the following fall or spring as perfect bee¬ 
tles. The maggots may be destroyed by 
placing .the seed, as soon as gathered, in 
cans or large bottles in each of which is 
poured a spoonful or two of bi-sulphide of 
carbon. Cork up tightly for a week or ten 
days. The liquid will not only destroy the 
maggots but it will preserve the peas from 
injury by fermentation in case they were a 
little green when put up.— E. S. Goff, in 
Our Country Home. 
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